The Chamber Event They Clear Their Calendar For.
Annual meetings, membership luncheons, small business summits, leadership academies, and young professional events.
A chamber room is the hardest mixed audience in business speaking. A bank president sits at the same table as a two-person landscaping company and a nonprofit director, and content built for any one of them loses the other two. Chris Sund has spoken for the Greater Omaha Chamber, the YP Summit, and the emPower Breakfast, and runs companies of the size most of your members do.
For a lot of your members, the annual meeting is the chamber. Everything else they know about you is a newsletter they skim.
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Chamber attendance is built by board members forwarding something specific. Chris has been on morning television in six markets and in Forbes, Inc., and the Midlands Business Journal, and every clip is short enough to drop straight into a registration email.
Five things a chamber room takes back to work.
No economic forecast, no market outlook, no policy commentary. This is the people side, which is the one thing every member in the room is dealing with regardless of size.
- Material that works for a room of twelve employees and a room of two hundred. Hiring, keeping people, and leading the person you just promoted apply identically at both ends of your membership. Content about scaling a company only speaks to part of the room.
- Something for the owner who is doing five jobs. Most chamber members are small. A session that assumes an HR department, a leadership team, and a strategic planning cycle tells the majority of your members it was not written for them.
- A reason for members to talk to each other afterward. The best chamber sessions give people something specific to compare notes on in the parking lot, which is where a large share of your membership value actually gets delivered.
- Nothing political. Your members do not agree on everything, and a speaker who wanders into it creates a problem that outlasts the event. The material is leadership and culture and it stays there.
- One move, not a framework. Every session closes on a single specific action, sized for somebody who is back at their own counter tomorrow morning.
On programming the room
Eight ways chambers book him.
Most chambers pair an evening keynote with a morning session for a leadership program or YP group. One travel day, a fraction of two visits.
Annual Meeting Keynote
Short by design so the awards and the business stay protected. See the annual meeting guide.
Membership Luncheon
The monthly or quarterly program, built to end on time so people get back to work.
Small Business Summit
General session for a member education event, with a breakout option.
Leadership Academy Session
Chamber leadership programs and multi-session cohorts, where the material gets practiced rather than described.
Board & Staff Retreat
Chamber boards and staff teams, on standards and how a small team works together.
AI Working Session
Members bring real tasks and hand them off live. Currently the most requested member education topic.
Multi-Chamber Event
Two or three neighboring chambers splitting a date and the travel cost, which halves it for everyone.
Built for the organizations holding a community together.
The framework holds across all of them. What changes is who is in the room and what they go back to.
Metro Chambers
Annual meetings, membership luncheons, and large member education events.
Small-Town Chambers
Where the budget is thin and the room matters enormously. See how to get it underwritten.
State Chambers
Statewide conferences and chamber executive gatherings.
Economic Development
EDC annual meetings and workforce development events.
Young Professionals
YP groups, summits, and emerging leader programs. See YP speaking.
Leadership Programs
Chamber leadership academies and multi-session cohorts.
Main Street & Downtown
Downtown associations and merchant groups.
Service Clubs
Rotary, Kiwanis, Lions, and Optimist. See service club speaking.
Visitors Bureaus
Tourism and hospitality organizations and their annual meetings.
Four movements. Ten principles.
Every session runs the same architecture as the bestselling book, which is what lets a luncheon, a leadership academy session, and an annual meeting build on each other across a year.
The Foundation
Ownership and time. What is inside your control when the economy, the labor market, and your landlord are not.
The Breakthrough
The comfort ceiling and the inner voice. The section a room of owners goes quiet for.
The Standard
Truth over praise, and the hidden gear. Who in your life will actually tell you the truth about your business.
The Purpose
Finishing, and leaving people better. The close, and the one members bring up afterward.
The easiest sponsorship you will sell all year.
A copy at every place setting with a sponsor's name inside the cover. Concrete, valuable, and it costs a fraction of most annual meeting line items.
You Are Capable of More: A No-Excuses Guide to Becoming Your Best Self. An Amazon bestseller from Game Changer Publishing, with a foreword by Ben Newman.
Ten chapters across four movements. The free companion toolkit includes a discussion guide that works for a leadership academy cohort, a self-assessment, and a thirty day challenge. Nothing is gated behind an email address.
The feedback speaks for itself.
Chris energized the room, sparked conversations, and encouraged connections throughout the event, with a lasting impact on our future leaders.
His engaging style draws the audience into the conversation, creating a relaxed atmosphere that encourages learning and reflection. You leave not only inspired but equipped.
Chris was an outstanding speaker and a highlight of our event. He took the time to deeply understand our organization and thoughtfully personalized every moment.
Chris is a thoughtful, intentional leader who understands the influence he carries. His message challenged me to think differently about how I lead, serve, and influence others.
Chris consistently brings knowledge, insight, and practical advice. He led two impactful sessions and left everyone with tools they could use immediately.
Chris energized the room, sparked conversations, and encouraged connections throughout the event, with a lasting impact on our future leaders.
His engaging style draws the audience into the conversation, creating a relaxed atmosphere that encourages learning and reflection. You leave not only inspired but equipped.
Chris was an outstanding speaker and a highlight of our event. He took the time to deeply understand our organization and thoughtfully personalized every moment.
Chris is a thoughtful, intentional leader who understands the influence he carries. His message challenged me to think differently about how I lead, serve, and influence others.
Chris consistently brings knowledge, insight, and practical advice. He led two impactful sessions and left everyone with tools they could use immediately.
Events already on your calendar.
He runs the kind of business your members run.
Chris Sund is an executive leader, keynote speaker, and bestselling author of You Are Capable of More.
As President and COO of Uniti Med, GQR Healthcare, and Nebula, he helped grow Uniti Med 10x in two years and earn the number three ranking on the Inc. Regionals list among the fastest growing companies in the Midwest, while the organization earned Fortune Best Workplaces recognition and Great Place to Work certification three years running.
He is a father of three based in Fremont, Nebraska, a Maxwell Leadership Certified speaker, trainer, and coach, Vice President of the NATHO Board of Directors, and a Forbes Business Council member. He speaks on a Tuesday and runs payroll on Friday, which is the same week most of your members are having.
Details your committee will ask for.
Chamber staff and committees ask these.
How do you handle a room with such different business sizes?
How much does a chamber keynote speaker cost?
Our chamber is small. Is this out of reach?
Can neighboring chambers share a date?
How long should the annual meeting keynote be?
Will he say anything political?
Can he do something for our young professionals group?
What about our leadership academy?
Can we get books for every attendee?
How do we start?
Other ways communities book him.
Same framework, built for the specific room you are filling.
Give your members a reason to come back.
Send your date, your membership mix, and what you want the event to accomplish. You will get availability and a plan back within one business day.